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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst b/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst index ecc738922b..a9fa45eac1 100644 --- a/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst +++ b/docs/devel/testing/functional.rst @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ QEMU binary selection ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The QEMU binary used for the ``self.vm`` QEMUMachine instance will -primarily depend on the value of the ``qemu_bin`` class attribute. +primarily depend on the value of the ``qemu_bin`` instance attribute. If it is not explicitly set by the test code, its default value will be the result the QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY environment variable. @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Many functional tests download assets (e.g. Linux kernels, initrds, firmware images, etc.) from the internet to be able to run tests with them. This imposes additional challenges to the test framework. -First there is the the problem that some people might not have an +First there is the problem that some people might not have an unconstrained internet connection, so such tests should not be run by default when running ``make check``. To accomplish this situation, the tests that download files should only be added to the "thorough" @@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ the tests are run. This pre-caching is done with the qemu_test.Asset class. To use it in your test, declare an asset in your test class with its URL and SHA256 checksum like this:: - ASSET_somename = ( + from qemu_test import Asset + + ASSET_somename = Asset( ('https://www.qemu.org/assets/images/qemu_head_200.png'), '34b74cad46ea28a2966c1d04e102510daf1fd73e6582b6b74523940d5da029dd') |